Definitions
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- adjective Too
sanguine ;overconfident , too disposed to hopes of success.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The inventor, the promoter, the salesman, and the oversanguine manager do not always foresee such things.
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He is foolishly oversanguine who predicts an easy victory over such a people, intrenched amidst mountains and hills.
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Already American merchants have established themselves at the mouth of the Amoor, and, unless Mr. Collins is oversanguine, a great trade is to spring up between the Californians and their opposite neighbors on the eastern coast of Asia.
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Suppose you are by nature rather oversanguine or overdespondent, and you make no genuine attempt to evolve that nature into poise.
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Sometimes, however, he seemed to her oversanguine; though he had worked hard, his success had come too easily, had been too uniform.
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Sometimes, however, he seemed to her oversanguine; though he had worked hard, his success had come too easily, had been too uniform.
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Sometimes, however, he seemed to her oversanguine; though he had worked hard, his success had come too easily, had been too uniform.
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I think that those are oversanguine who believe that there will be no falling back.
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It follows that the policy of the North in raising and organising its armies had at first to be a policy evolved between numerous independent authorities which never met and were held together by a somewhat ignorant public opinion, sometimes much depressed and sometimes, which was worse, oversanguine.
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Alan was not oversanguine, although Fred Skane declared Bandmaster's task was easier than The Duke's.
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